More galling is the phony outrage from politicians about how the banks are actually spending the money.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Tuesday rapid fire
- Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better
- Bleeding Heart Tightwads – the right gives more to charity than the left
- Burger King launches beef-scented body spray
- The neurotypicals conspire against us with homeopathic remedies
The line of last night…
(Woman I was talking to referring to band on stage)
“The singer sounds like he’s hitting a baby with a cat”
Dry Fit!
Here is the current state of the woodworking project. I went with SYP for the sides and shelves (with a gel stain, it looks very nice). On to finishing!
Listen and mellow
Best Dentist Ever
That would be the good folks at AtlantaDentalArts.com – not cheap but there were able to work me in and do a lot of emergency work nearly painlessly. Highly recommended and quite worth it. Nice, non-judgmental folks too
All the King’s Men
I recently saw All The King’s Men, and was quite impressed. It joins the ranks of old movies everyone should see. Basically it’s the story of Huey Long, the populist and crooked governor of Louisiana.
Turning Japanese
We’re officially in a recession – and for the first time in living memory American household debt shrinks! Americans really will do the right thing once all other options have been tried!
Quick links
- Clever bailout commentary
- An interesting history of Shinseki
- Media entraps cops! -He might have opened up a mighty can of perjury worms. These scandals only seem to happen to the special teams, never to the regular copy.
- The Big Picture – photography
I hold my nose
I hold my nose, club my conscience, and smother my scruples and voted for Chambliss today. Barr’s suggestion was important to me, enough to get me over my outrage at his campaign literature mentioning “Fiscal Responsibility”.
Incidentally my polling place was deserted, which points to a substantial win for Chambliss.